Jordi Garcés, an architect since 1970, a PhD in Architecture from the UPC in 1987, and a professor of projects at the Barcelona School of Architecture (1975-2015). He has been a guest lecturer and an external expert since 1995 at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and a member of the jury for numerous awards and competitions. Architect of the Picasso Museum in Barcelona, which, with the latest incorporation, adds the new annex building as the culmination of the lengthy transformation and adaptation of the five Gothic buildings on Carrer de Montcada. Moreover, the Museum of Navarra in Pamplona, the first Barcelona Science Museum, the Museum of the Cosmos in Tenerife, the temporary exhibition halls of the MNAC, the Egyptian Museum in Barcelona and the Francisco Godia Foundation in Barcelona are examples of a long track record of museum projects.

His approach to projects, always paying great attention to the nature of the urban fabric in the case of buildings, comes from a more generic professional sensitivity, consolidated by the experience obtained in multiple projects on great variety of topics: Hotel Plaza, Vall d’Hebron Olympic Pavilion, three Metro L9 stations in Barcelona, Strasbourg Palace of Justice. He is currently working on the old hospital of Sant Sever, on Carrer de la Palla in Barcelona, and on the new town hall of Briançon (France). Since 2011, he has been an partner architect at Garcés-de Seta-Bonet architects.